Woven fabric and method of producing the same.



S.-J. E. SOLLEY.

WOVEN FABRIC AND METHOD OI PRODUGING THE SAME. APPLIOATION FILED JULY 21, mos.

Patented Apr. 27,1909.

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SARAH J. E. SOLLEY, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

WOVEN FABRIC AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE, SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 2'7, 1909.

Application filed July 27, 1908.- Serial No. 445,452.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SARAH J. E. SoLLnY, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Woven Fabric and Methods of Producing the Same, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like letters on the drawing representing like parts.

Thisinvention relates to the production of a fabric suitable for rugs or carpets made with a filling or weft of narrow strips of old or new carpet or similar material, and having designs formed during the weaving.

Hitherto it has been impossible to obtain satisfactory results in the formation of designs in this kind of fabric. By this invention a fabric is produced which in design and appearance may be equal, if not superior, to the well-known oriental rugs and carpets.

In the present invention well defined designs can be formed with exactness, and appear equally well on both sides of the fabric. By employing the proper kind of material for the weft or filling and by properly beating up the texture of the rug can be made as firm and soft as desired.

This invention leaves no unsightly ends and produces no hard or objectionable ridges at any point in the carpet as has been the case heretofore when designs have been attempted in the production of fabrics of this character.

The essential feature of the invention consists in the employment of a binding filling of hard and firm character which does not appear on either face of the fabric when beaten in and which serves to hold in place the filling forming the face of the fabric and prevents the ends occurring at the defining lines of the design from working loose or appearing on the face of the fabric.

The invention consists, therefore, in a fabric wherein the filling is made up of woven strips of old or new carpet or similar material formed into designs, and an invisible binding filling, and in the improved method of producing the said fabric.

This invention both in the fabric and in the method will appear more fully from the accompanying description and drawings and will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

The drawings represent in a somewhat diagrammatic way the arrangement of the warp and filling which go to make up the fabric, and are for the purpose of making clear the relation of these parts the one to the other.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a small rug embodying the invention shown as provided with a simple form of design. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view of a portion of the fabric in the process of construction. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2.

In fabrics of this character the warps which are invisible in the completed fabric are formed of any suitable hard fabrics, while the filling is formed of some material which will present when beaten in a soft and plush-like surface, such as is produced in pile carpets or rugs. One of the best ma terials and one most readily obtainable for this purpose is a narrow strip of ingrain or similar carpet, cut in the direction of the warp. The warp threads of such ingrain carpet serve to hold together the short filling threads of the cut strips presenting a lluify appearance, and when these strips are beaten in only the short filling threads are presented on both surfaces, thus giving the soft pile effect desired. Either old carpet may be cut up for this purpose or narrow strips may be specially woven and used for a very fine class of work. Brussells carpet and other carpets presenting a hard woven back and a pile face may be cut into narrow strips and twisted before being beaten in so as to present only the pile face at either face of the rug or fabric. These strips thus employed are dyed in different colors and are placed in the shed by hand. The arrangement of the colored strips in the warps is all that serves to constitute and (.lcfine any desired design. Hence, at the line separating the figure of the design from the body of the fabric there must be a joint between the filling strips. If this joint is effected by carrying the adjacent ends of the strip constituting the body and the strips constituting the body of the design about the same warp it will be seen that a ridge will be produced in the carpet which. is obj cctionable not only in feeling but also which is soon exposed by wear. If these strips are turned back about adjacent wraps then an opening is produced in the fabric, and if the defining line of the design extends for a plurahty of fillings, as is usual, the opening correspondingly increases in size'and constitutes a defect in the fabric.

The present invention makes use of an additional, or as. it is. herein termeda binding filling, preferably inserted in each shed with the main filling. This blnding filling and the warps serve ofthemselves alone to form a complete fabric, so that; the-main filling-is. really unimportant to secure the strength. This enables;

and continuity ofthe fabric. the strips of main filling to come together at the border line of the design without being bent back about the same warp, orinother The construction of the fabric and the. method of weaving will appear more clearly fron Figs. 2 and 3, in whichthe.arrowsrepresent the dlrection of the beat up.

The warps are represented at, W, WW, the.

main filling constituting the body portion at F and the main filling constituting the de. signportion at F while the binding filling is represented at G. For simplificationof illustration the mainfilling constituting the. body and the design are shown as plain strips, whereas they are in fact made up as. above described of narrow. strips ofingrain.

carpet cut in the direction of the warp or similar material.

The fabric is preferably woven in a hand; loom, and as the mechanism of-such aloom.

is familiar and well known it is. unnecessary to describe the same.

In any given shed either the binding filling or the main filling may be first inserted and;

beaten up, but it hasbeen found that the best results are produced by inserting the binding filling first and following it with the main.

filling, and such formisherein illustrated.

When the body portion of the fabric has.

been woven, as shown in the lower portion of Figs. 2 and 3, and the point is reached where the design is to appear, the outline of the design being chalked orotherwise, marked on. thevwarps, the binding filling 1s inserted in the open shed and beaten up., A piece of main filling F of the color of the body of-the fabric is then laid in the same shed, as shown inFig. 2, and the end turned-back around; onev of the war sv the space between which. definesithe, out ine of thedesign andisleft protruding. The main filling F of the color to form the design portion of the fabric is then laid in thesame shed'and the end bent back in the opposite direction around the other of the warps the space between which defines the outline of thedesign and is left protruding. Thismain filling is then beaten up in the shed. The protruding ends are then woven in to the warps on their respec tive sides. The shed is then changed; The bin derfillingisagain inserted. The fabric is then beaten up. The operation then proceeds as before untilthe fabric; is. completed.

The above operation produces. the most desirable form of. fabric, the filling. being thoroughly beaten inandwhen finishedthe fabric presenting on each sidea surface in Whichthe design is sharply defined ancbpresenting no hard ridges. or visible openings The constructionand.method bevaried slightly and satisfactory resultsrsecured by weaving theends of the main fillingback into the warps before the shed is. changed and the binding fillinginserted, but, the best results are secured-by beating up the main filling first and then weaving inthe endsas above described 7 The binding filling may be carried; in a shuttle andinserted in a continuous strand back. and. forth as. in the caseof: ordinary weaving.

Having described my invention, what, I

claimas. new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. Theimproved method'of producinga woven fabric ina design, whichconsistsin employing relatively small hard warp threads, relatively small hard binding filling, and relatively large fluffy main filling of diiferent colors, insertingthe binding fllingand'piecesof different colored main filling in-thesame shed, and turningthe .adjacentends of said pieces of main filling back. into the warpsabout adjacent warps thespace between which, defines the outline of the design,

2. The improved method of producing a woven, fabric in a design, which consists in employing relatively small hard; warp threads, relatively smallhard'binding filling, and relatively large flufiy main filling of differentcolors, opening the-shed, insertingthe bindingfilling in the shed, inserting two differently colored pieces. of main ,filling in, the same shed, turningthe adj acentendsiof said pieces back. about adjacent Warpsthe space between which defines the outline of the design and leaving thesaid ends. protruding,

beating up, weaving the said loose'ends back into the warps, changing theshed,

A woven fabric presentinga design and consisting of relatively small hard warp threads, relatively small'hard binding filling, and relatively large fluffy main fillingof different colors, the binding filling and the main filling extending side by side over and under name to this specification, in the presence of the warps and the adjacent ends of different two subscribing Witnesses.

colored pieces of the main filling lying SARAH l E SOLLEY aiound ad acent war s the space between 5 which defines the out ine of the design, and W'itnesses:

interwoven back upon themselves. MABEL PARTELOW,

In testimony whereof, I have signed my THOMAS J. DRUMMOND. 

